Carnaval de Ciego de Avila

Ciego de Avila's Carnaval de las Flores traces to a modest 1936 attempt but is defined by its landmark 1955 edition, a forty-four-day celebration from April 9 to May 22 that decorated seventy-eight city blocks with twenty-two floats and nine comparsas, tied to the November feast of patron saint San Eugenio de la Palma, with the modern celebration now concentrated in the first week of May.

Ciego de Avila's Carnaval de las Flores began in a modest 1936 attempt organized between rival local societies, but its landmark first full edition arrived in 1955, an extraordinary forty-four-day celebration running from April 9 to May 22 that decorated seventy-eight city blocks and paraded twenty-two floats alongside nine comparsa groups, drawing participants from multiple regions of the country and establishing what remains considered the most famous carnival in the province's history.